What the hell is up with Britta's rack this year? It started with Annie last year, but now both her and Annie always have some awesome boob action going every show. Not that I mind, necessarily.. but did Gillian Jacobs demand equal rack time or something?
HAHAHAAHAH. In Hollywood, I'm sure that's a commond demand.
I've heard people ranting and raving about that Childish Gambino album but I can't get behind Glover's flow. The one song I watched him perform on LJNF made me think he was trying WAAAAAAAAAAAY too hard to sound like Lil Wayne. That is SO not what I want from him. But, maybe that's the only track that sounds like that? I'm not sure. I would think that he would have some very clever lyrics. So, I am intrigued enough to give it a listen, but I'm not expecting much.
Yeah, there's two songs on there where he definitely tries to sound like Lil' Wayne. But mostly he tries to sound like Kanye West.
It's like he's really smart and pop-culture literate so he wants to prove that to you. But he can also rap really well so he wants to prove that to you, too. But he also doesn't want to be pigeon-holed as a backpacker so he wants to prove he's hard. But then he doesn't want to be just another one of those gangsta rappers so he wants to show he can flow about anything and he wants to prove THAT as well. Plus he wants to sing. And have awesome production. And he's very, very angry at having to prove all this (which no one asked him to do).
So essentially a Kanye rip-off. The beats are kind of 808/Dark Twisted Fantasy era, and the lyrics are College Dropout era. The problem of course, is that Kanye West already did this, and Kanye West is truly a musical genius, and even then people are already kind of sick of West's whole 'tude.
It's not like Glover/Gambino doesn't have skills. It's just that he has nothing to say. It's not laughably bad rap in a Shaq way. That would actually kind be more interesting. It's bad in the mundane MC-trying-way-too-hard way.
I cannot for the life of me get why it seems to be getting so many positive reviews.